Perennial Institute

31/08/2020

Perennial Institute has produced a card deck! Free, with a recommended donation of any amount to an organisation we support or another you think we should support. Send a screenshot of your donation and a download link for the cards will be sent back. Support those who are actively shaping an equitable future that is in harmony with our planet. 🌿

Illustration, lay-out and packaging design by

20/03/2020

David Bowie & Brian Eno, Moss Garden, 1977. Video by

From the album Heroes A Cinema 4D creation

20/03/2020

How plants can teach us to live ethically by Ellen Mara De Wachter

For our third film supported by Arts Council England, Ellen Mara de Wachter considers how plants can help to teach us how to live ethically

21/01/2020

21/01/2020

A 400 year old Bonsai pine tree survived the atomic bomb of Hiroshima and lives today. It's basically the baby yoda of trees. 🌳

The Atomic Tree is a journey into the memories of one of the most revered trees in the world—a 400-year-old Japanese White Pine bonsai that witnessed —and su...

06/01/2020

Giving personhood and legal rights to nature may just save us all.

If we want to forestall the worst of climate change, we need innovation not just in tech but in law, the rule sets that guide our behavior.

31/12/2019

2020 vision🍀
Image: Mia Farow, Four leaf clover, Roddy McDowall. c1964

21/12/2019

World's oldest forest, dating back 385 million years, provides a snapshot of one of the planet's great transitional periods, between an earth with no forests and an earth that's covered in forests.

Evidence of the world's oldest forest, dating back some 385 million years, has been discovered in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York, according to a new study published in Current Biology.

19/12/2019

Plants account for 82% of all life on Earth and Kewgarden just named 102 more along with eight fungi. 'Discovering and giving scientific names to new species is the crucial first step to protecting them' say the Kew scientists.

Other species identified by Kew experts include a snowdrop and cancer-fighting fungus

02/12/2019

A new process for artificial leaf technology, inspired by photosynthesis "mimics natural leaves.” Meaning it can make carbon-neutral fuel at a low cost.

An artificial leaf would combine CO2, water, and sunlight to create energy. Scientists just got closer to making it work at scale.

13/10/2019

As another cycle of deadly and destructive California wildfires burn we are reminded of artist Sam Falls. His site specific representations of California forests are a beautiful preservation of plant life that may not survive climate change.

https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/hammer-projects-sam-falls/